You're in good company

Right off the bat get your own personal site - use it as a free personal blog, or portfolio site.

Free forever

Customize your site's branding - your own custom domain, colors, layout, and more.

Tailor your branding.

Home

It would be nice if JavaScript had a native 

 is the de-facto format for variables in Javascript.

However, there is no such method at the moment, so we have to do the work ourselves. Below we will take a look at one way you can convert a string to a 

So let's break it down. What's happening here?

 which takes in a string and will return a camelCase word. Before it will return the camelCase word, we define a regex pattern that will match the upper case or lower case letters.

- Then on line 3  we create an array of items that matches the regex pattern.

 function, we map over the words array from the previous step and to the following:

Whew, that was a lot. Finally, we take the 

 and join them to format one word (our camelCaseWordHorray) by doing this 

javascriptreturn formattedWords.join('');

Finally, with all that done, we can then use it to transform a string to camelCase words like so:

"Once upon a time, not too long, 2 eons ago..."

// in console: onceUponATimeNotTooLong2EonsAgo

 removed spaces, interpunction characters and 

Learnt something or found it useful? 🎉 

It would be nice if JavaScript had a native string method that would do this, but until it does - here's how you can convert a string to a camelCase word.

How to convert String to camelCase in JavaScript

Discussions